Comment on What the fuck happened to YouTube!?

• AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lol yes they did.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The first one I’ve ever heard of was ad block plus, which initially released October 23, 2005.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus

    But sure I’m sure you’ve been using adblockers since 1992

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    • Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      10 seconds of googling:

      adguard.com/en/blog/ad-blocking-history.html

      i mean the fact its called adblock plus is kind of a give away that it probably wasnt the first

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I already looked this up because I was curious. The other person had no interest in an actual conversation so I didn’t see the point in reporting back. Yes I was slightly wrong, but believe it or not I’m capable of questioning myself and spending a few seconds to check up on something.

        I will say that despite being a lifelong computer nerd, I don’t think I had even heard of anyone using an ad blocker until probably 2006 or 2007. To say “I haven’t seen an ad in decades” is a statement that just sounds false. It cannot possibly be literally true, so that primed me not to believe them.

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